Search Results - "Pereira da Silva, Susana"
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Coarse Particulate Air Pollution and Daily Mortality: A Global Study in 205 Cities
Published in American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine (15-10-2022)“…The associations between ambient coarse particulate matter (PM2.5-10) and daily mortality is not fully understood at a global scale. To evaluate the short-term…”
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Obesity and treatment meanings in bariatric surgery candidates: a qualitative study
Published in Obesity surgery (01-11-2012)“…Background This study used a qualitative approach to comprehend how the morbid obese conceptualize and deal with obesity and obesity treatment, with the…”
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Rainfall events and daily mortality across 645 global locations: two stage time series analysis
Published in BMJ (Online) (09-10-2024)“…To examine the associations between characteristics of daily rainfall (intensity, duration, and frequency) and all cause, cardiovascular, and respiratory…”
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Fluctuating risk of acute kidney injury-related mortality for four weeks after exposure to air pollution: A multi-country time-series study in 6 countries
Published in Environment international (01-01-2024)“…•We examined the association between air pollution and AKI death in 6 countries.•Increased PM2.5, O3, and NO2 was associated with an increased risk of AKI…”
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The stability of self-reported adverse experiences in childhood: a longitudinal study on obesity
Published in Journal of interpersonal violence (01-07-2013)“…The literature on the effect of maltreatment has revealed several methodological problems of retrospective studies, such as the validity and stability of…”
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Optimal heat stress metric for modelling heat-related mortality varies from country to country
Published in International journal of climatology (01-10-2023)“…Combined heat and humidity is frequently described as the main driver of human heat-related mortality, more so than dry-bulb temperature alone. While based on…”
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Seasonality of mortality under climate change: a multicountry projection study
Published in The Lancet. Planetary health (01-02-2024)“…Climate change can directly impact temperature-related excess deaths and might subsequently change the seasonal variation in mortality. In this study, we aimed…”
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Excess mortality attributed to heat and cold: a health impact assessment study in 854 cities in Europe
Published in The Lancet. Planetary health (01-04-2023)“…Heat and cold are established environmental risk factors for human health. However, mapping the related health burden is a difficult task due to the complexity…”
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Seroprevalence of Protective Antibodies Against Influenza and the Reduction of the Influenza Incidence Rate: An Annual Repeated Cross‐Sectional Study From 2014 to 2019
Published in Influenza and other respiratory viruses (01-05-2024)“…ABSTRACT Background Seroepidemiological studies provide estimates of population‐level immunity, prevalence/incidence of infections, and evaluation of…”
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Cross-protection to new drifted influenza A(H3) viruses and prevalence of protective antibodies to seasonal influenza, during 2014 in Portugal
Published in Vaccine (11-04-2017)“…Highlights • Low pre-existing cross-protection against new A(H3) drift viruses. • Seroprevalences for A(H3) and A(H1)pdm09 were higher than influenza B. •…”
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Psychological and health comorbidities before and after bariatric surgery: a longitudinal study
Published in Trends in psychiatry and psychotherapy (01-12-2013)“…INTRODUCTION: Morbid obesity has multiple implications for psychological and physical health. Bariatric surgery has been selected as the treatment of choice…”
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Air pollution mixture complexity and its effect on PM2.5-related mortality: A multicountry time-series study in 264 cities
Published in Environmental epidemiology (01-12-2024)“…Background: Fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ) occurs within a mixture of other pollutant gases that interact and impact its composition and toxicity. To…”
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Patients' experiences after bariatric surgery: a qualitative study at 12-month follow-up
Published in Clinical obesity (01-12-2013)“…Summary This study used a qualitative approach to understand patients' experiences in post‐surgery adaptation related to bariatric surgery, 12 months after…”
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A flood susceptibility model at the national scale based on multicriteria analysis
Published in The Science of the total environment (01-06-2019)“…River flooding is a specific worldwide type of flooding responsible for considerable human and material losses. An extensive knowledge about flood conditioning…”
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Estimates of global seasonal influenza-associated respiratory mortality: a modelling study
Published in The Lancet (British edition) (31-03-2018)“…Estimates of influenza-associated mortality are important for national and international decision making on public health priorities. Previous estimates of 250…”
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Mapping landslide susceptibility using data-driven methods
Published in The Science of the total environment (01-07-2017)“…Most epistemic uncertainty within data-driven landslide susceptibility assessment results from errors in landslide inventories, difficulty in identifying and…”
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Different types of flooding lead to different human and material damages: the case of the Lisbon Metropolitan Area
Published in Natural hazards (Dordrecht) (01-03-2018)“…In this study, both human and material damages caused by different types of flooding in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area (LMA) were determined for the first time…”
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Effects of different land use and land cover data on the landslide susceptibility zonation of road networks
Published in Natural hazards and earth system sciences (11-03-2019)“…This work evaluates the influence of land use and land cover (LUC) data with different properties on the landslide susceptibility zonation of the road network…”
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A landslide risk index for municipal land use planning in Portugal
Published in The Science of the total environment (15-09-2020)“…In Portugal landslides caused 237 fatalities and >1600 displaced people in the period 1865–2015. Spatial distribution and temporal patterns of slope…”
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Reforestation and land use change as drivers for a decrease of avalanche damage in mid-latitude mountains (NW Spain)
Published in Global and planetary change (01-06-2017)“…Natural conditions that explain the triggering of snow avalanches are becoming better-known, but our understanding of how socio-environmental changes can…”
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